RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS
The quadrennial Rugby Sevens World Cup Sevens (RWCS) is the pinnacle of rugby sevens, a subset of rugby union. The highest level of rugby competition outside of the Summer Olympics is managed by World Rugby and currently consists of men’s and women’s competitions.
The men’s tournament champion receives the Melrose Cup, which has the name of the Scottish town of Melrose where the first rugby sevens match was played. The first tournament was held in Scotland in 1993, and it was won by England.
Australia became the first nation to win the women’s competition at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.
The event had a lengthy five-year break following the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens to allow for the inclusion of rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics in the competitive schedule. New Zealand will be the defending champions in both the men’s and women’s competitions at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, where the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens will take place..
HISTORY
The Scottish Rugby Union made a suggestion to the International Rugby Board that eventually became the Rugby World Cup Sevens. [Reference needed] The first competition took place in 1993 at Murray Field in Edinburgh, and since then it has taken place every four years. England defeated Australia 21-17 in the tournament’s championship match to claim victory.
The 1997 competition was held in Hong Kong, which has been crucial in the growth of the Sevens game internationally. South Africa lost to Fiji in the championship match. Argentina’s Mar del Plata hosted the competition in 2001. Hong Kong hosted the tournament once more in 2005. During the first weekend of March 2009, Dubai hosted the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, which featured a distinct women’s competition. The total number of attendees was 78,000.
The IRB announced their desire to discontinue the World Cup Sevens so that the Olympic Games would be the one apex in a four-year cycle for Rugby Sevens prior to the sport’s participation in the Olympic Games. The executive board of the International Olympic Committee recommended the inclusion of golf and rugby sevens to the full council in August 2009. Rugby sevens was chosen by the International Olympic Committee in 2009 to be a medal sport at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics in 2016. Out of eight countries that had formally indicated interest in hosting, the IRB Council selected Moscow, Russia, as the host city for the 2013 event in 2010. The IRB hoped that hosting the World Cup Sevens would increase Russians’ exposure to rugby and help it develop faster. There were 16 women’s teams and 24 men’s teams competing.
After the 2013 event, the IRB initially planned to stop hosting Rugby World Cup Sevens in favor of the Olympic competition. The decision to keep the competition going was made in 2013, nevertheless, as it can accommodate a wider field than the Olympic rugby sevens competitions and will allow an elite-level competition to take place every two years starting in 2016. The Olympics would be incorporated into the competitive calendar, so the next tournament would take place in 2018, one year later than usual. The 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens will be held in the United States, it was confirmed on May 13, 2015.
2022 RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS
The eighth Rugby World Cup Sevens, which will be run by World Rugby in 2022, will take place. The event in 2022 will feature 24 men’s teams and 16 women’s teams, and it will be held in September over three days at a single location. Between September 9 and September 11, 2022, it will take place in the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. This will be Africa’s first-ever Rugby World Cup Sevens. The dates will be selected with the Commonwealth Games competition, which will take place in July of the same year, in mind.
VENUE
The competition will be held in Cape Town at the Cape Town Stadium.
The Rugby World Cup Sevens will take place in South Africa in 2022 thanks to a decision made by the World Rugby Council at its interim meeting on October 30, 2019, in Tokyo.
The eighth iteration of the premier competition will be held in Cape Town in September 2022, marking the first time the Rugby World Cup Sevens has been held on the African continent.
At the Cape Town Stadium at Green Point, the top 24 men’s and 16 women’s rugby sevens teams in the world will play over three days for the title of world champions.
This year, for the first time, both men’s and women’s teams will compete over three days as part of the redesigned World Rugby Sevens Series at the 55,000-seat stadium, which has hosted the Cape Town Sevens since 2015.
The 2022 competition comes after the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 in San Francisco, which drew a record-breaking crowd of over 100,000 supporters for a rugby event in the USA and a sizable domestic broadcast audience of more than nine million viewers.
The three-day competition, held at AT&T Park, brought in $90.5 million in economic revenue for San Francisco (Nielsen Sport), and both the men’s and women’s teams from New Zealand were successful in defending their titles.